The duo of Ganiy Diekola Ajenikoko of Electrical Engineering Department and Kehinde Ogunleye of Agricultural Extension Department, alongside 29 others have been recommended for promotion as professors by the Appointments and Promotions Committee for the Academic Staff of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso.
Also recommended for promotion as Readers were 52 other lecturers of the institution.
A statement issued at the end of the Committee’s meeting, held during the week and signed by the Registrar of the University who doubles as the Secretary to the Governing Council, Dr. Kayode Ogunleye, read that their promotion followed due process and thorough screening.
A breakdown of the figure shows that Faculty of Agricultural Sciences has 12 new professors while Faculty of Engineering and Technology has eight.
Others are Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences with six, faculties of Pure and Applied Sciences and Environmental Sciences have two professors each, while the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, has one.
Faculty of Engineering and Technology is leading in the production of Readers with 24, Agricultural Sciences, 11; Basic Medicals, nine; and Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, five.
Others are two and one readers from Clinical Sciences and Environmental Sciences respectively.
